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Trauma Spectrum Disorders (TSD) Gets its Place in the Sun

By On February 18, 2010 · 1 Comment

Back in 1999 I was asked to write an editorial for the American Journal of Psychiatry about a group of articles in the journal on Acute Stress Disorder (ASD). Prior versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) had a PTSD, acute (less than one month) and chronic types. The DSM-IV dropped the acute [...]

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Response to a Rather Chowder Headed Article on PTSD

By On July 16, 2009 · 11 Comments

This rather chowder-headed article (“PTSD has Unreliable Diagnostic Criteria”) by David Wilson and Peter Barglow has several weak points that I thought I would address. First of all the use of the term “Unreliable”.

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Psychologists Help Out on U.S. Torture Team

By On May 14, 2009 · 4 Comments

An article in the Spokane WA newspaper The Spokesman Review outlines how local Spokane area psychologists James E. Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen were key developers of the interrogation program used by the military. A local blog in the Spokane area describes in detail the history of how psychologists from the Behavioral Sciences Consulting Team (BSCT) of the military became involved in developing torture techniques like waterboarding

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 3

By On May 12, 2009 · 4 Comments

In the first and second parts of this multi-part posting, I described the effects of my mother’s death when I was four and a half years old on my life. This continues on how in my adult life I sought out her history.

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 2

By On May 11, 2009 · 9 Comments

In the last post (“Brief History of My Mom, Part 1″) I wrote about my Mom’s sudden death when I was four and half years old. That was a terrible blow for me. She was a radiant person who was described as “turning on like a light bulb” when her friends walked into the room.

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 1

By On May 10, 2009 · 20 Comments

Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in little kid language but I just say “47″). Anyhoo it pops out in my blogs here and there and to be honest I felt like I was putting myself out there or taking a risk somehow by talking about it. After she died my father soon remarried and it was not a topic of frequent conversation, shall we say.

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Live Blogging from Dubrovnik: Conference on Consciousness and Identity

By On April 19, 2009 · 9 Comments

This week the travelling blog team moves to Dubrovnik, Croatia, for the Sixth Annual Mind and Brain Conference, where I gave a talk about “PTSD and Brain Plasticity.” One of the main themes of the conference was neurofeedback, and we have conversations about consciousness and identity…

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Capt. Pill Takes Shot Across the Bow in PTSD Wars

By On March 31, 2009 · 7 Comments

Well I thought my last post on PTSD (see “DSM V Team Strikes Back Against PTSD Establishment on PTSD”) might at least flush out who the mystery woman psychiatrist is from the Sex and Seroquel scandal (it didn’t) but it did provoke a reaction from David Dobbs, the author of the Time magazine article (The PTSD Trap”) that I took on as peddling pseudo-contrarian views.

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